Reply To: cruise dating?
Alas, things can sometimes get complicated. I’m happily married and monogamous, but went on two of the trips solo because my wife was in school and could not get away. I did want to socialize with fellow nerds, of course, but knew I was going to have to handle flirting (which happened a LOT — a surprising amount of it from people who were married and traveling with their spouses) and even possibly being propositioned (yes, that happened too) with as much grace as possible. We nerds are a frisky bunch!
I thought the generic, non-relationship-oriented “speed meeting” was a great event regardless of whether one was looking for romance. Had I been looking, it could easily have led to one. But there’s certainly nothing wrong with having explicit “singles” events as well. Perhaps, having identified and maybe planted stickers on one another at those events, singles would recognize each other at others, including the dance parties (where it’s too loud to talk).